Enzo Canales
Latin America Guide 2025
Band 3 : Labour & Employment
Band 3
About
Provided by Enzo Canales
Practice Areas
Enzo is Head of the Employment & Pensions Group at A/C/R Legal. His professional practice focuses on systems applicable to foreign workers, international social security treaties, norm compliance, collective bargaining, and trials.
Enzo frequently advises foreign companies from various industries, throughout the stages of hiring personnel, on the establishment of special employment conditions, on the structuring of payment packages, on matters of employee safety and health, on termination of employment, and in representation & defense of clients as employers in labor trials of all kinds.
His team works in a coordinated effort, on corporate and tax issues, and participates in all due diligence processes related to M&A operations.
Enzo has been a speaker in ABA international forums, on matters related to labor law.
Career
2005 Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law
2008 Labour Reform Certification, Instituto de Estudios Judiciales
2009 Joined (CMS) Carey & Allende as associate of the Labour Law group
2012 Promoted to Director and appointed head of the Labour group
2017 Promoted to Partner
2017 Together with some other labour lawyers, he founded a think tank concerning the Labour Reform in Chile
2024 Founded A/C/R Legal